Screenplay: Michael Snow

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Michael Snow. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


*Corpus Callosum

2002 · Movie · 92 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Jacqueline Anderson · Berj Bannayan · Greg Hermanovic · John Massey

Synopsis "*Corpus Callosum" is simultaneously static and elastic. Though Michael Snow credits a cast, he really uses his actors like action figures and deploys postproduction technology to stretch their forms and...

7.4

25 votes

7.4

25 votes

So Is This

1982 · Documentary · 84 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Synopsis “A silent film of 45 minutes consisting of single words of this script or score placed on the screen one by one, one after another, for specific lengths of time…...

7.2

48 votes

7.2

48 votes

Back and Forth <--->

1969 · Movie · 52 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Allan Kaprow · Emmett Williams · Max Neuhaus · Joyce Wieland

Synopsis "This neat, finely tuned, hypersensitive film examines the outside and inside of a banal prefab classroom, stares at an asymmetrical space so undistinguished that it's hard to believe the whole...

6.9

52 votes

6.9

52 votes

La région centrale

1971 · Documentary · 180 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Synopsis Entirely shot using a robotized camera set on the top of a mountain in the Canadian wilderness - in winter. The camera was mounted on a mechanical arm that could...

6.9

161 votes

6.9

161 votes

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6.1

30 votes

Wavelength

1967 · Movie · 47 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Hollis Frampton · Lyne Grossman · Naoto Nakazawa · Roswell Rudd

Synopsis Viewed from its basic concept, this is a purely formal film: it consists of a single, 45-minute-long tracking shot through the length of a room, accompanied by slowly-increasing sine tones...

6.0

383 votes

6.0

383 votes

One Second in Montreal (S)

1969 · Documentary · 17 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Synopsis Silent succession of black and white photographs reflecting nearly empty streets from the city of Montreal (Canada).

5.7

34 votes

5.7

34 votes

Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) (S)

1976 · Documentary · 15 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Synopsis Responds to Wavelength - as the forward motion of the camera destroys a crammed breakfast table.

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Presents

1981 · Documentary · 99 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Synopsis An investigation into representation, process and material and the nature of camera movement.

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Puccini Conservato (S)

2008 · Documentary · 10 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Synopsis Puccini Conservato uses a CD, a sound recording of Puccini's music (La Bohème). The sound source (the speakers), in a continuous manual displacement (guided by the music), is interspersed with...

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Direction Michael Snow

Synopsis Michael Snow's film WAVELENGTH has been hailed as a classic of avant-garde cinema since its release in 1967. In February 2003, Snow created a new work consisting of simultaneous rather...

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A to Z (S)

1956 · Movie · 6 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Synopsis A cross-hatched family fantasy about nocturnal furniture love. Two chairs fuck.

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See you later (S)

1990 · Documentary · 18 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Michael Snow

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New York Eye and Ear Control

1964 · Documentary · 34 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Don Cherry · Albert Ayler · Gary Peacock · Sunny Murray

Synopsis A cutout of a woman's silhouette is shown in several places while listening to a free jazz soundtrack: the eponymous album composed improvised for the film. The jazz musicians, including...

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Standard Time (S)

1967 · Documentary · 8 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Synopsis Experimental short film in which a camera examines a small apartment with a woman and a cat.

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Solar Breath (Northern Caryatids)

2002 · Documentary · 62 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Synopsis Solar Breath consists of a sixty-two minute uninterrupted shot of Snow's cabin window in northern Canada, Newfoundland. As the curtain gently billows in the breeze and we periodically glimpse the...

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Prelude (S)

2000 · Documentary · 4 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Bill Chan · Esther Jun · Robert Lee · Leanne Poon

Synopsis "PRELUDE is a very short film, two minutes long, whose brevity as well as density are such that the viewer barely has enough time to understand what it is all...

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